The author of the letter is Baron Marschall von Bieberstein, a captain of the reserves and Prussian "Landrat," obviously a kinsman of the late diplomatist and Ambassador in London.

My daughters were dressed, and I myself was dressing to take them to a weddinga cousin of our friend Santerre is marrying a diplomatist.

Sidi-El-Arby is also a thorough diplomatist, so far as report goes; he promises anybody anything; he keeps all on the tiptoe of most blessed expectation, and so makes friends of everybody.

The Governor was greatly pleased with the sound of his own voice, and the skill of his argumentations, and has the character of being a loquacious and reasoning diplomatist.

It took some self-restraint to listen to the old diplomatist, for his stories were beyond all belief, and yet he was quick at detecting the shadow of a smile or the slightest little raising of the eyebrows.

Still more singular is it that the last of his successors, as abbot of Bec, was the diplomatist Talleyrand,one of the most worldly and secular of all the ecclesiastical dignitaries of an infidel age.

Indeed, he was at this time the foremost man in England, on account of his great talents as a statesman and diplomatist as well as general, and for the ascendency of his wife over the mind of the Queen.

The Baron de Staël-Holstein, then secretary to the Swedish embassy, afterwards ambassador from Sweden, was the most available suitor, since he was a nobleman, a Protestant, and a diplomatist; and Mademoiselle Necker became his wife, in 1786, at twenty years of age, with a dowry of two millions of francs.

You are a diplomatist, and it is for you, is it not, outwardly, at any rate, to see only the good of the country in which your work lies.

It is the first instinct of a young diplomatist to draw in his horns when a beautiful young woman confesses herself interested in his profession.

The true diplomatist adapts himself wherever he may be.

"I shall never be a success as a diplomatist," he confessed.

You should be a diplomatist, Mr. Norgate.

But the face, with its short beard dyed dark with henna, and its blue eyes, is not that of a warrior, but of a serious scholar or diplomatist.

These are followed by at least two more Medici picturesthe portrait of Piero di Lorenzo de' Medici, in this room, No. 1154, the sad-faced youth with the medal; and the "Pallas and the Centaur" at the Pitti, an historical record of Lorenzo's success as a diplomatist when he went to Naples in 1480.

The art of life expounded in his Letters differs from Johnson as much as the elegant diplomatist differs from the rough intellectual gladiator of Grub Street.

" "I am not a diplomatist," answered the Sicilian.

Enlightened, cultivated, a friend of the arts, a scholar and diplomatist, he seems, unlike many Orientals, to have selected the best in assimilating European influences.

I am no diplomatist, sir, but I venture to deny the conclusion of the Senator's argument.

Bismarck tells us that "Illusions are the greatest danger to the diplomatist.

He was an able diplomatist, a distinguished general, and a polished, though dissolute, courtier.

Matthew Prior, poet and diplomatist.

If the other elements of his character had not been balanced by these two qualities, he also might have been a skilful diplomatist, and a successful leader of armies.

It must have been a great temptation to Bismarck, but he now shewed the prudence which was his great characteristic as a diplomatist; he feared that in a war of this kind the brunt would fall upon Prussia, and that when peace was made the control of negotiations would be with the Czar.

Major Oakshott spoke more kindly than usual to him, being free from fresh irritation at his misdemeanours; but even thus there was a contrast with the gentler, more persuasive tones of the diplomatist, and no doubt this tended to increase Peregrine's willingness to be thus handed over.